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Chix & Dave’s Pompey Quiz Challenge

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Reckon you know all there is to know about our famous old club? Well pit your wits against your two favourite anoraks and see if you can win a prize.

Well the waiting is over.

Listed below is the first set of questions in;
Chix & EastneyDave’s Pompey Quiz Challenge

To find out exactly how the quiz works click here , but in summary, remember:

A. Not all questions carry the same points value

B.
You can gain extra points by testing Chix and Dave’s knowledge.

C.
A ‘mystery prize’ will be awarded to the person with the most points.

D.
There are four parts to the Quiz. 25 questions will be issued each week

E.
You can submit your answers a section at a time or all at once, anytime before the closing date of Midnight on 1st August 2009

F.
All answers must be sent to the Vital Pompey Office by clicking the submit answer link.

I think that’s it, except to say if anybody has any questions whatsoever please let us know by leaving a comment below and remember you have to be ‘in it to win it` so get your thinking caps on.

Good Luck !


Chix & EastneyDave’s Pompey Quiz Challenge
Questions 1 to 25
(50 points available)

Q1. Who are ‘The Axe’, ‘The Torpedo’, ‘The Undertaker’ and ‘The Wardrobe’?

Q2. Who was Pompey’s first million pound signing?

Q3. True or False – Pompey were runners-up in the Football League War Cup in 1942?

Q4. Which German born player was the only non-British member of The News all-time best Portsmouth XI compiled at the end of the 2007-08 season?

Q5. True or False? – Despite being born in Italy Pompey Midfielder Richard Hughes has represented Scotland at full international level.

Q6. At ‘six foot two with eyes of blue’ which big centre-half was ‘after you’ according to the Fratton End in the mid 1970’s?

Q7. What name was Predrag Radosavljević better known as ?

Q8. Who was Pompey’s groundsman between 1959 and1978?

Q9. Who was the first Pompey player to score at Fratton Park in the 21st century?

Q10. Which club did Pompey sign Mick Kennedy from in 1984?

Q11. Fill in the blanks: 13,__, 17, __, 8, 14

Q12. Which player was allocated squad number 26 for the 2008/09 season?

Q13. Why was the away fixture at Aston Villa on Boxing Day 1955 significant in the career of Jimmy Dickinson?

Q14. When Luton manager Joe Kinnear said “at least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask” to what was he refering?

Q15. Which former Pompey player won a gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics?

Q16. Which unfortunate, yet unique fact do Jamie Ashdown and Noe Pamarot share?

Q17. Which Pompey legend had the nickname ‘Farmers Boy’?

Q18. Who provided the ‘Foreword’ for Alan Knight’s autobiography ‘Legend’?

Q19. Which current squad member makes no secret of the fact that he collects Raleigh Chopper bicycles and Action Men

Q20. Which former Weymouth player did Pompey sign on the Summer transfer deadline day in 2008?

Q21. Who was Pompey’s club Captain`s prior to Sol Campbell?

Q22. Svetoslav Todorov signed for Pompey from which club?

Q23. Who is Gary Sadler?

Q24. What is the postcode of Fratton Park?

Q25. How many League goals did Peter Crouch score during his first spell with Pompey?


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